Author: Dee MolenaarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aquifers
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The Spokane Aquifer, Washington
Author: Dee MolenaarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aquifers
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The Spokane River
Author: Paul LindholdtPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 029574314X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
From Lake Coeur d’Alene to its confluence with the Columbia, the Spokane River travels 111 miles of varied and often spectacular terrain—rural, urban, in places wild. The river has been a trading and gathering place for Indigenous peoples for thousands of years. With bountiful trout, accessible swimming holes, and challenging rapids, it is a recreational magnet for residents and tourists alike. The Spokane also bears the legacy of industrial growth and remains caught amid interests competing over natural resources. The contributors to this collection profile this living river through personal reflection, history, science, and poetry. They bring a keen environmental awareness of resource scarcity, climate change, and cultural survival tied to the river’s fate.
Spokane's Expo '74
Author: Bill CotterPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439659583
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
In the late 1960s, Spokane's civic leaders were desperately looking for a way to revitalize a large section of downtown, especially a motley collection of little-used railroad lines and polluted industrial sites along the Spokane River. Their solution was to use the area for Expo '74, which was billed as the first ecologically themed world's fair. Critics predicted the project was sure to fail, as Spokane was the smallest city to ever host a world's fair, but history proved them wrong. From the minute the gates opened on May 4, 1974, the crowds loved the fair. Hosting 5.4 million visitors, with participation from several major companies and countries, Expo '74 was a success. As planned, it launched a rebirth along the river that left a permanent legacy, the popular Riverfront Park.
The Fair and the Falls
Author: John William Theodore YoungsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
J. William T. Youngs headed the research staff who interviewed over 200 citizens and reviewed thousands of pages of records, in order to write this definitive history of Spokane, its people, and the first ever Environmental World's Fair to be ratified by the Bureau of International Expositions in Paris. This comprehensive history of a midsize western American city chronicles the coming of white settlers and their interchanges with the Indians of the region; the harnessing and exploitation of the Spokane River and its beautiful falls for energy to run mills and light streets, stores, and homes; and the impact of the railroads. At the heart of this meticulously researched account is the growth and decay of Spokane's inner city by the falls, as its economy ebbed and flowed, and the reclamation of the falls through the resounding success of Spokane's World Fair-Expo '74.
The Cayuse Indians
Author: Robert H. RubyPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806137001
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
In this book, Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown tell the story of the Cayuse people, from their early years through the nineteenth century, when the tribe was forced to move to a reservation. First published in 1972, this expanded edition is published in 2005 in commemoration of the sesquicentennial of the treaty between the Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla Confederated Tribes and the U.S. government on June 9, 1855, as well as the bicentennial of Lewis and Clark’s visit to the tribal homeland in 1805 and 1806. Volume 120 in The Civilization of the American Indian Series
Scientific Investigations Report
Author: Sharon E. KroeningPublisher:
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Category : Earth sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Wandermere
Author: Ty A. BrownPublisher:
ISBN: 9780578447711
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Wandermere involves much of Spokane's early history-from its humble beginnings as Spokane pioneer, Francis H. Cook's family farm, to a wilderness escape for the "city folk" of the growing city, to the year-round playground, and eventually to the golf course that it is today. The vision of this book is to tell the story of this beautiful place and to keep in mind the memories of all the loyal customers, family, friends, and employees that have made it a such a legacy on the Little Spokane River.
Making Salmon
Author: Joseph E. Taylor IIIPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295989912
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Winner of the George Perkins Marsh Award, American Society for Environmental History
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